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1) The GOP coalition is still wildly divided ideologically; 2) rules that impose term limits on the speaker and committee chairs mean members are always jockeying for their next powerful position; and 3) the self-imposed term limits of many Republican members encourage them to eschew working within the system in favor of making trouble.
The context for all this jockeying is the fate of the tobacco bill, with its restrictions on teen marketing, now awaiting consideration by the full Senate.
According to Byrd, everyone--the White House, the media, the House--should stop jockeying and let the Senate be the Senate.
"The Madness of Speaker Newt" chronicles Gingrich's decline: Newt's Republican "revolutionaries" are abandoning him; his advisers are recriminating over who's to blame for his collapse; and potential successors are jockeying for position.
All this jockeying has forestalled any real Republican agenda.